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- Title
Edna's Sense of an Ending: A Rhetorical Analysis of Chopin's Use of Narrative in The Awakening.
- Authors
CUFF, MARY
- Abstract
A literary criticism of the novel "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin is presented. Topics discussed include rhetorical power in the ending of the novel in relation to its beginning, the view that the suicide of the character called Edna is a conventional death-as-punishment ending, and the creative return to feminism as reflected in the death of Edna.
- Subjects
AWAKENING, The (Book : Chopin); CHOPIN, Kate, 1850-1904; FICTION; LITERARY criticism; ENDINGS (Literature); FEMINISM in literature; OPENINGS (Rhetoric); SUICIDE in literature
- Publication
Mississippi Quarterly, 2016, Vol 69, Issue 3, p327
- ISSN
0026-637X
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/mss.2016.0008